The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.